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new relic speed index comparison

If you are a SAAS company then its good to know how you fare against market in terms of SLA, speed index, error rate and other attributes. It seems new relic has a way to share your speed data anonymous with others to see how you compare with others.

It seems our startup is in 95th percentile in terms of server speed and even though we had 99.979 % availability we are in 54th percentile and others are doing far better than us in SAAS B2B world.

Error rate is high for an almost obsolete backup product is causing the numbers to skew so I would ignore it for time being.

Although what stands out if web page response time for our single page app is in 11th percentile. It sucks, will chase what is going on in coming days.

I have a thumbnail generator that launches multiple processes and the correct way to shut it down is to send kill -HUP to the parent process. To automate I had to write a pid file from python, it was a piece of cake
def writePidFile():
pid = str(os.getpid())
f = open('thumbnail_rabbit_consumer.pid', 'w')
f.write(pid)
f.close()

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